Long Beach Pride 2018: A guide to Long Beach queer bars

The Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. along Shoreline Drive at between Shoreline Village Drive and Alamitos Avenue at Marina Green and Rainbow Lagoon parks.

About the author

Phillip Zonkel

Award-winning journalist Phillip Zonkel spent 17 years at Long Beach's Press-Telegram, where he was the first reporter in the paper's history to have a beat covering the city's vibrant LGBTQ. He also created and ran the popular and innovative LGBTQ news blog, Out in the 562.

He won two awards and received a nomination for his reporting on the local LGBTQ community, including a two-part investigation that exposed anti-gay bullying of local high school students and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protections for LGBTQ students.